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The Port Wasahington Town Board is continuing its quest to purchase two properties next door to the town hall.

Supr. Mike Didier told the board Oct. 1 that he was forwarding a formal offer to purchase the properties at 3709 and 3703 Highland Dr. via a land contract to Town Atty. Steve Cain for review, after which the offer would be sent to the Gantner family for consideration.

The offer, Didier said, “is essentially the same offer as we originally submitted.”

A nonprofit organization’s plan to sink a freighter two miles off the mouth of the Port Washington harbor and sculptures created by area students off the breakwater met with mixed reaction from the Common Council Tuesday.

Although the city was asked to be a co-applicant with the Shipwreck Education and Preservation Alliance in its application for a Department of Natural Resources permit to place structures at the bottom of the lake, aldermen tabled action until their Wednesday, Nov. 7, meeting saying they had too many questions to make a decision Tuesday.

State Rep. Rob Brooks of Saukville said this week he takes responsibility for offensive comments he made to three female colleagues in July, and while he stepped down as assistant majority leader after those comments were reported last week, he will not resign from office as Gov. Scott Walker called on him to do.

A financial audit that Ozaukee County court officials hope is the last in a series of investigations prompted by Judge Joseph Voiland has found that the Clerk of Court Office has handled payments for family court services, mediation and custody studies properly, Director of State Courts Randy Koschnick announced last week.

The Merry-Go-Fish gala, when 25 wooden fish decorated by artists were to be auctioned off on Oct. 5 to benefit Possibility Playground, has been cancelled.

Instead, the fish will be sold during an online auction that runs through noon Saturday, Oct. 20.

The sale of the fish is an effort to expand Possibility Playground, a play area in Port Washington’s Upper Lake Park that was built by the community a decade ago and is accessible to children of all abilities.